I realize the campus bike issue is almost a dead horse. Monday evening, I hit a bicyclist with my minivan. He was going the wrong way on a one-way street, had his iPod blaring, and refused to give his last name or even wait for the University Police Department or an ambulance.
Some Cal Poly sports underrepresented
As a reader of the Mustang Daily and a Cal Poly athlete, I am appalled by the decisions of which sports have had featured stories this past week. Specifically, I can not understand why a sport in their off-season would have a feature story about their recruiting class, when men’s soccer just had a huge win against conference leader and defending conference champion Cal State Northridge.
Great Baker milk ad in 90th anniversary issue
I just wanted to thank you guys for putting together a great issue. I love Cal Poly and was so interested to read all of these different clippings. I picked up multiple copes to send off to my alumni family! Seeing the Baker milk ad was the highlight of my day.
How to Survive: The Voting Booth
You’re only going to have a few days to register to vote before the Nov. 7election by the time this column is published, if you haven’t already, and that really should give you a reason to hurry.
Now you can give me every excuse in the book about why you’re not going to vote this time around, such as “it’s only a mid-term election, nothing important is being voted on,” or “I don’t know what’s on the ballot,” but I am not buying it.
How to not be the annoying jackass in class
While the release of “Jackass 2” is a hit among college students, there is a time and place where it might be appropriate to be like your onscreen “Jackass” favorites. The classroom, however, is not one of those places. In this guide to life, I will provide you with the various classifications of Jackasses so that you know what to look for in others and what to avoid doing yourself.
Don't let video games vaporize the contents of your wallet
I can’t quite claim the original Nintendo Entertainment System as the system that got me hooked.
You know, the gray and red box in which 8-bit game cartridges got stuck, froze and you had to blow on them to get them to work.
I wish I could. But being born the year it came out (1985), it was my older friends who ditched homework to clutch that awkward, blocky controller.
Elevators and DRC vans are scariest elements on campus
I think there is something wrong with the elevators in the library. I’m a civil engineer and am lucky enough not to have to take vibrations classes that mechanicals do, but I’m pretty sure elevators are not supposed to shake violently.
It’s even scarier to look at the inspection sheets inside the elevator which expired in August.
Campus bike problem a complicated situation
I like Mr. McThrow’s thinking regarding solving the bike problem. But why stop at bridges? Let’s make our campus rival Disneyland. I propose installing gondolas, underground passageways, moving sidewalks, trolleys, escalators, cable cars, monorails and some tunnels.
September 11 hits home for Poly students
“Where were you Sept. 11?”
The tragic events of that day in 2001 have become a landmark event for our generation. For our parents, the question is, “Where were you when President Kennedy was shot?” For our grandparents, the question is, “Where were you when Pearl Harbor was bombed?”
Each generation’s calamity is so shocking, most people will remember what they were doing the exact moment they heard Kennedy was assassinated or the Trade Towers demolished.
Be yourself when playing the dated dating game
When I’m around other twenty-somethings chatting indiscriminately about relationships, I have no qualms referring to my significant other as my boyfriend.
But at certain times, usually around the older and wiser, the word “boyfriend” sounds awkward coming out of my mouth.
Giving credit where micro-credit is due
It might not be strewn across TV screens and newspaper headlines every day like the pictures of Kim Jong-il or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but right now poverty is a bigger threat to the health and stability of this world than the “Axis of Evil.” Every day 30,000 people die because they are too poor to afford food or medicine.